Recent Achievements
A renewed youth policy in the early 1990s gradually saw a younger age profile for the first eleven. This change in policy eventually led in 1999 to North Down regaining a place in the top section of the Ulster Senior League, after an interlude of 40 years. Two years in the top section ended at the end of the 2000/01 season when North Down, who finished ninth, were placed in the new Senior League One, the top league being renamed as the Premier League and reduced from ten to eight teams.
North Down briefly regained top flight status for one year in 2005-06, the season ending with relegation back to Senior League One.
In the 2008/09 season North Down won the first ever Irish Hockey Trophy defeating Antrim 6-5 in the final and also regained promotion back to the Premier League. They were again relegated to Senior One at the end of the 2011-12 season.
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